- 216 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures
About this book
Through this innovative methodology, Dick aptly shows how South African readers used reading and books to resist unjust regimes and build community across South Africa's class and racial barriers.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Signifi cance of Common Readers in South Africa
- 1. Early Readers at the Cape, 1658–1800
- 2. Literacy, Class, and Regulating Reading, 1800–1850
- 3. The Women’s Building of Nations: History Books in the Early Twentieth Century
- 4. Books for Troops in the Second World War
- 5. Politics and the Libraries, Part One: Book Theft, Intellectual Fraud, and Book Burning, 1950–1971
- 6. Politics and the Libraries, Part Two: Dissident Readers and Librarians in the 1980s Townships
- 7. Reading in Exile after Soweto, 1978–1992
- 8. Combating Censorship and Making Space for Books
- Conclusion: Revealing the Hidden Books and Hidden Readers
- Notes
- Index